90% Pub of the Week: The University Arms, Sheffield Phil Penfold December 13, 2016 Beer & Cider, Drink, Pub reviews Phil Penfold suspects that the University Arms, housed in a Victorian detached red brick, was originally a private house.
95% Pub of the Week: The Union Hotel Phil Penfold September 19, 2016 Beer & Cider, Drink, Pub reviews When Victorian speculators started to build the little Sheffield enclave that is Nether Edge they clearly thought that a useful amenity would be a pub. Up went what is still named the Union Hotel and in an area steeped in local history, the building is now Grade II list
100% Pub of the Week: The Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield Phil Penfold July 4, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews A pub that pushes all the right buttons. And, no, I am NOT in the pay of the landlord. In fact, I happened along on a freezing cold lunchtime purely by chance, and because the nearby bric-a-brac emporium was...
90% Pub of the Week: The Springvale, Sheffield Phil Penfold June 28, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Standing on the steep slope that is Commonside and an even steeper one that leads off into the valley below, building the Springvale must have taken a bit of ingenuity and skill.
95% Pub of the week: The Closed Shop, Sheffield Phil Penfold June 20, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Oh, were that there were far more pubs like the Closed Shop. Unpretentious, impeccably run, traditional and excellent beer, served with a smile.
90% Pub of the week: The Hilltop Hotel, Conisbrough Phil Penfold May 3, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews The Hilltop Hotel is a fairly sturdy old place with farm fields between it and the nearest house.
85% Pub of the week: The Station Inn, Silkstone Common Phil Penfold April 23, 2016 Beer & Cider, Drink, Pub reviews On an early spring afternoon in a light drizzle, the exterior doesn’t look as cheery as it does in high summer, when it is a riot of colour with hanging baskets, but it’s what’s inside that...
95% Pub of the week: The Keys, Hoyland Common Phil Penfold March 31, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews The Keys (once The Cross Keys) has been a fixture of Hoyland life for a good few generations. But, like so many other pubs in Yorkshire, it fell upon hard times and for a while was boarded up and looked almost ready for demolition. But those days are now behind it and, re-vamped and re-named The Keys, it is mercifully once again open and doing rather well.
95% The Riverside, Sheffield Phil Penfold March 7, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Sorry to disappoint, but Sheffield’s pub with that very same name is next to a very busy road and the side that abuts the water has a sheer drop into the fast-flowing and occasionally slightly murky River...
75% Pub of the week: The Beverley Inn, Edenthorpe Phil Penfold February 5, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews There’s nothing pretentious about The Beverley Inn, Edenthorpe. Just good service to the customer.